Hone Tuwhare

Hone Tuwhare was born on 21 October 1922 near Kaikohe, in Northland, of Ngāpuhi descent. His mother died when he was five, and he grew up in poverty in Auckland with his father. An apprentice boilermaker with the railways from 1939, a soldier in the Maori Battalion in 1945, a trade unionist and a member of the Communist Party, which he left in 1956, he was encouraged to write by R. A. K. Mason. Twice a Burns Fellow at Otago, awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Auckland in 2005, he settled in Kākā Point in 1992 and died in Dunedin on 16 January 2008.

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• PoetryNo Ordinary SunHone Tuwhare · 1964Literature